Food product.



- UNITED STATES Patented June 7, 1904.

JOHN (J. FLEMING, OF SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY.

FOOD PRODUCT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,666, dated June 7,1904.

Application filed November 15,1901. I Renewed Tannary 25, 1904. SerialNo. 190,4:92. (N0 specimens.)

To all whom, it may concern:

' Be it known that I, JOHN G. FLEMING, a citizen of the United States,residing at Summit, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Food Products, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is designed to produce a new and wholesome article of dietcomposed, essentially, of wheat mixed with apple-juice. In producingthis food product I have found it convenient to grind or otherwisereduce to a powder the wheat-grains, employing the entire wheat product,although, if desired, the outer covering, consisting principally of awoody or fibrous sheath, may be removed. To this pulverized wheat (whichmay be reduced to the finely-divided state of flour or not, as desired)is added enough unfermented applejuice, preferably freshly expressed, tomake the mixture a pasty mass sufiiciently thick to be shaped intotablets or cakes. Having been so shaped, the tablets are baked in anoven in order .to liberate all the watery portions of the fruit-juiceand to dry the mixture thoroughly, thereby leaving in combina tionwith-the nutritive properties of the wheat the active principle of theapple, composed for the most part of sugar and free acid, with smalleramounts of albuminous substances 3 and salts. This drying also avoidsthe danger of fermentation of the food product when taken into thestomach.

Any suitable means for grinding the wheat may be employed, as well asany receptacle 35 for mixing and drying the compound.

The relative proportions of the wheat flour or grits and apple-juice maybe varied considerably, the desideratum being to get as much apple-juicein the mixture as it will take 4 article of food composed of farinaceousma- 45 terial having apple-juice incorporated therein, substantially asdescribed.

2. As a new article of food, a baked tablet composed of comminuted wheathaving applejuice incorporated therein, substantially as 5 described.

JOHN G. FLEMING.

Witnesses:

M. LAWSON DYER, DRURY W. COOPER.

